Bug Theatre
3654 Navajo Street,
Denver,
CO
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3654 Navajo Street,
Denver,
CO
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Bug Theatre (Official)
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Functions: Live Performances, Live Theatre, Movies, Movies (Film Festivals)
Previous Names: Ideal Theatre, World Theatre, Avalon Theatre
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Manager:
303.477.5977
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Operated in the early-1900’s, according to the book “Denver’s Old Theatre Row:The Story of Curtis Street and its Glamorous Show Business” by longtime theatre organist Forrest H. Johnson. The Ideal Theatre opened in 1912 as a nickelodeon.
In operation as of 2015 as a small, mixed use venue including occasional film screenings. Allegedly got its name as The Bug from neighborhood children that used to call it ‘The Bug House’. It became a 501©(3) in 1994.
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This theatre was also known as the Navajo Theatre during the mid twentieth century and had a seating capacity of 380.
The space was originally built as a nickelodeon movie house in 1912, known at the time as the Ideal A street view of a brick building with a bright red painted facade in the center marked “Bug Theatre.” The adjoining buildings include a gallery on the left and a shop on the right. Several parked cars line the street, and a tree branch is visible at the top right corner. Theater. Throughout the century it has also been known as The World Theatre, The Navajo, and The Avalon, and also operated for a time as a Faith Temple Church, before closing in the 60’s and being converted into an appliance storage warehouse. In 1994 it was purchased by local artists Reed Weimer and Chandler Romeo, who incorporated it as a federal 501©(3) as “Bug Performance and Media Art Center” and named it The Bug Theatre, a tribute to the nickname the neighborhood kids used to have for the space – the “Bug House”.